And who will choose who’s on the Tribunal? I’m picturing something like the Congressional Hearing on Contraception back in 2012.

They like water balloon fights. A lot.

Exactly. Nice try, Ryan, but no one is buying it!

You’re there to compete, you’re not there to party.

You have ten thousand people, of varying sexual orientations, at the height of their physical prowess, all under stress

If you’re an athlete, you hope that all of your events are near the beginning. After that, the fuckfest tour begins.

Literal shit is more postmodern than modern, actually, but you’re still not allowed to touch it.

Story time:

There are two things I’ve noticed in multiple fields about both the men that commit this shit and the ones that field these complaints; they have way more in common with each other than they’d like to think. Even the best type of guy who reaches C level is more interested in the outcome for the accused than the…

Yikes. He sexually harrassed me, which was awful, but I ended up reconciling with him through the help of my powerful legal team and now I have to wonder if his other victims are really just complicit in their own objectification?

I concur, I was harassed by a colleague and was encouraged to report it by other coworkers who hate the guy. I now regret it, it was a massive time-suck for me, and the harasser got less than a slap on the wrist, which has only emboldened him.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-He-Th… is a good place to start

I was sexually harassed by a much older man, a client, while on a work trip in my early 20s. It was distressing and uncomfortable, to be sure, but the reporting process was infinitely worse. If I had known then what I know now - both about how awful the reporting was going to be, and about how important it is for…

She had to invoke lawyers to get him to back off, and she’s having trouble with how he’s being portrayed. My friends, this is what cognitive dissonance looks like.

Wow, that was the deepest-buried lede I’ve ever seen. The last two sentences — that's the story. She is at once claiming to be a victim while blaming the victims.

Wait. So she says the reason she struggles to believe he is a serial sexual predator is that he sexually harassed her and only backed down on his threat to condition her job based on her willingness to sex when she had THREE attorneys call him? My head hurts.

How warped is my mind from this election that my initial thought was “I wonder what batshit kind of response Trump will have?”

I LOVE that you are covering Ledecky, but please try to get the terminology right! It’s the 400 meter freestyle because there is more than one race contested over 400 meters. It’s body lengths, not bodies, because, while she is metaphorically killing the competition, she’s not actually swimming over the dead bodies of…

The only thing I know about him is that his presence / torso regularly reduces Anderson Cooper to a quivering mass of jelly, blushes, and giggles. As do most things and people and places, really.

Shooting the dog might have something to do with not wanting their bodies to be *eaten* by said dog if it took a while for them to be discovered. I used to work in a coroner’s office. It happens.